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Workshop der Gebrüder Spindler

Active in Bayreuth and Potsdam 2nd half of the 18th Century

Commode with fantastical scenery in marquetry for the Bayreuth court. Circa 1765

Marquetry with walnut vein, walnut, maple, plum wood, beech on spruce corpus; brass fittings, cast, punched, gilt; iron box locks. 78,5 × 117 × 60 cm (30 ⅞ × 46 ⅛ × 23 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Workshop der Gebrüder Spindler. Commode with fantastical scenery in marquetry for the Bayreuth court. Circa 1765.

Estimate:

EUR 35,000

 

- 40,000

USD 41,200

 

- 47,100

Sold for:

43,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2017

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 30.11.2017

Information

Marquetry with walnut vein, walnut, maple, plum wood, beech on spruce corpus; brass fittings, cast, punched, gilt; iron box locks. 78,5 × 117 × 60 cm (30 ⅞ × 46 ⅛ × 23 ⅝ in.). Catalogue raisonné: Certificate Sigrid Sangl, Ismaning, dated 15 November 2015. With key.

Comparable object: Workshop of Brothers Spindler: commode, Bayreuth and Potsdam, circa 1765, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg, inv. no. HG12541.

Private collection, Donndorf – close to Schloss Fantaisie of Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (until 1963) / private collection, Bavaria (acquired in 2015 at Kunsthandlung Wolfgang Baumann, Bayreuth)

Sigrid Sangl: Spindler? In: Journal of the Furniture History Society, vol. XXVII (1991), p. 22–66, p. 32, ill. 71